Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

TL;DW Webinar Report: Elevate Your Window Server Experience with Windows Admin Center, DataON MUST, and Mellanox

Did you miss our quarterly webinar last week? Don’t worry, we’ve got the “too long; didn’t watch” (TL;DW), along with some helpful timestamps for all you busy SysAdmins out there. Daniel Lee of Microsoft kicked it off, talking about the new Windows Admin Center and DataON MUST Extension for WAC (13:15). DataON was the first … TL;DW Webinar Report: Elevate Your Window Server Experience with Windows Admin Center, DataON MUST, and Mellanox

DataON Kepler 2-Node (K2N) Hyper-Converged Appliances for SMB, ROBO and Edge

A few weeks ago, DataON launched the Kepler 2-Node (K2N) family of hyper-converged appliances for Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V, designed for small businesses, remote office/branch office (ROBO), and Edge computing environments. The K2N Series was born out of a Kepler-47 concept unveiled at Microsoft Ignite as a lowest-cost, high performing, resource-efficient, … DataON Kepler 2-Node (K2N) Hyper-Converged Appliances for SMB, ROBO and Edge

Windows Server 2019 Is Almost Here! Let’s Take a Look at Some of the Most Important, New Features.

It’s been almost two years since the release of Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and nearly six years since the release of Windows Server 2012 with Storage Spaces. A lot has happened since then. We at DataON have an amazing relationship with Microsoft. DataON was the first vendor certified for … Windows Server 2019 Is Almost Here! Let’s Take a Look at Some of the Most Important, New Features.

IT Hero: DataON & Microsoft, The Perfect Solution for Quest’s Veeam Cloud Connect Service

Quest Technology Management, also known as “Quest” and DataON had been working together for about four years when Quest partnered with Microsoft to provide an Azure public cloud offering, and DataON was chosen as the storage to power the solution. Interestingly, I had not known our Azure team had partnered with DataON. I was doing … IT Hero: DataON & Microsoft, The Perfect Solution for Quest’s Veeam Cloud Connect Service

Gartner HCI Report, WSSD Solutions… Microsoft is ready for prime time!

Ben Milbourne Three weeks ago, Gartner published their highly anticipated 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.  It’s the first time that Gartner has included software-only, “bring-your-own-hardware” hyper-converged systems, and Microsoft debuted at the forefront of the “visionaries’” quadrant: The report goes on to state, “In its 2018 release, Microsoft will strengthen its data deduplication capabilities with … Gartner HCI Report, WSSD Solutions… Microsoft is ready for prime time!

IT Hero: Moving on From Something Familiar, Making the Change to Windows Server 2016

Matt Roper, Facilitator of Technology Support Services, Office of Technology & Information Services, Cherokee County (GA) School District Matt Roper is the Facilitator of Technology Support Services in the Office of Technology & Information Services for the Cherokee County School District, one of the largest K-12 public school systems in Georgia. Matt has over 12 … IT Hero: Moving on From Something Familiar, Making the Change to Windows Server 2016

New S2D-5000 Servers with Intel Purley Processors, Certified for Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD)

In 2017, Intel launched their new Xeon Scalable processor family. The new “Purley” platform has been hailed as “the biggest data center advancement in a decade,” offering breakthrough performance to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure, and high-performance computing. Since then our customers have been asking, when will DataON offer products with Purley … New S2D-5000 Servers with Intel Purley Processors, Certified for Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD)